He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Quotations
Music
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
